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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Embed Excel doc from Sharepoint

I am trying to see if there is a way to embed an excel doc that is saved in SharePoint to an extra tab on the desktop app. I don't want to import the data, I am already connected to an analysis serve...
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    CiceroBC
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

    I totally forgot that the HTML Viewer visualization can only render local HTML in Power BI desktop. This may not work for your issue if everyone is using the pbix file in desktop mode. Sorry about that!

     

    For reference if you ever want to use it in a published report, loading a networked or web based page within the viewer is just making an html iframe tag in a value table. This video shows a pretty solid example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzA3PZx3qk 

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CiceroBC
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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

I totally forgot that the HTML Viewer visualization can only render local HTML in Power BI desktop. This may not work for your issue if everyone is using the pbix file in desktop mode. Sorry about that!

 

For reference if you ever want to use it in a published report, loading a networked or web based page within the viewer is just making an html iframe tag in a value table. This video shows a pretty solid example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzA3PZx3qk 

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

No worries, thank you for checking!